Tag: ProTools

It was 1:00 AM. Like a typical teenage musician, I didn’t feel the least bit tired. The rest of my family had already gone to bed, so I couldn’t play or really mix. What did I decide to do? Why, I added some key commands in Logic, of course!

I hit option-K and opened up the long list of assignable shortcuts. I’d already made key commands for most of the tasks that I did routinely, but I wanted to add more to save even more time.

One thing that has continued to irk me about Logic has been the lack of the Super Tool (aka, the Smart Tool) that ProTools has. After working in ProTools at GRAMMY Camp this summer, I took the SuperTool for granted. I could clean and edit audio tracks so fast with it. When I came back home and discovered that I had to assign a key command to switch to the fade tool in Logic to clean tracks, I was pretty frustrated. Continue reading “Studio Diaries – “MHB,” Part 3: Sleeplessness and Logic’s Super Tool”→